North Penn School District, police investigating weapons found at area schools

Local police responded to two incidents involving weapons found at or near North Penn district schools as well as the North Montco Technical Career Center on Thursday.

The incidents do not appear to be related, police said.

According to information released by Towamencin Township Police, at 10:46 a.m. police responded to North Montco Technical Career Center for a report that a student who might be on the property was possibly in possession of a firearm. At first, no further information was available, police said. Upon arrival. police received a name of a student that may possibly be involved and also learned that Hatfield police were investigating the possible possession of a pellet or Airsoft gun by a named student at Pennfield Middle School the day before.

After an investigation and discussion with Hatfield Township Police and Pennfield Middle School officials, it was allegedly determined that two Pennfield students — both also students at North Montco Tech — had possessed an Airsoft gun and a BB gun at both North Montco Tech and at Pennfield on Jan. 16.

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Police said it was confirmed that the weapons or students were present at North Montco on Thursday.

Hatfield police are handling the possession of one of the weapons by one of the same students at Pennfield Middle School on Thursday, according to Towamencin police.

A pellet gun was confiscated, according to the North Penn School District, but the gun was not operational and the students never threatened nor posed a threat to their classmates. Those students involved will also be disciplined according to the district’s discipline code.

Towamencin police are filing weapons on school property offenses against a 14-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy, both Towamencin residents, through Montgomery County Juvenile Court, according to the police press release.

At North Penn High School on Thursday, a school security officer found knives in a vehicle parked in an unauthorized area of the high school, and Towamencin police were called to the scene when the weapons were found. The student who had driven the vehicle was found and the vehicle was searched, according to a press release from Towamencin Township Police. According to the district, a total of four knives and a razor blade were found within the vehicle, along with prescription drugs and tobacco products. The Towamencin police press release states there was a 10-inch-long Gerber knife, a KA-BAR knife and a multi-blade-style knife. Police arrested the student for possessing weapons on school property, and the student will face disciplinary consequences based on the district’s student discipline code, according to the district statement.